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"Harmless" virus may hide and cause asthma 10-21-08
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A usually harmless childhood virus may hide in the
lungs and come back to cause wheezing and other symptoms of asthma, U.S.
researchers reported on Tuesday.
They found evidence that respiratory syncytial virus or RSV stayed in the lungs
of mice and caused the overactive airway symptoms that characterize asthma.
"This research suggests that there's a potential new mechanism for asthma
related to viral infections in children that could be associated with RSV,"
pediatrician Dr. Asuncion Mejias of the University of Texas Southwestern, who
led the study, said in a statement.
"These findings could aid in the development of preventive and therapeutic
interventions for children with recurrent wheezing due to a virus such as RSV."
Nearly every child is infected with RSV early in life, and the virus usually
clears up without serious complications in about a week. But 3 percent to 10
percent of infants with RSV infections develop severe bronchitis and must be
treated in the hospital.
Doctors also thought the body quickly cleared itself of those types of viruses.
But writing in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the researchers said it may
persist in some children.
They previously showed that RSV infection could raise the likelihood of chronic
lung disease in mice.
For this experiment, the UTSW team infected mice with either live RSV or viruses
weakened by ultraviolet light or heat.
After 42 days, the researchers found evidence of the virus in every mouse
infected with live RSV, but not in the others.
Whether RSV persists in children remains to be seen, but the fact that the virus persists in mice is amazingly powerful," said Dr. Octavio Ramilo, a pediatrician who also worked on the study.
Also, the more virus detected in the lungs of the mice, the more likely they were to have airway hyperactivity -- or bronchospasms -- and the worse those spasms were.
Mice treated with an antibody -- an immune system protein -- targeted to RSV ended up with less virus in the lungs and developed significantly less airway hyperactivity and lung inflammation.
"We are currently doing a study in which we are treating kids with a new antibody that is very potent," Mejias said. "The plan is to follow them for a year to see if aggressive treatment against the virus can prevent wheezing."
Comment:
Modern medicine would love to pinpoint the cause for asthma, but this is not it. Asthma is an autoimmune disorder, and while viruses such as RSV may make matters worse; it does not cause asthma.
Mark my words, this will eventually be used as a ploy to create vaccinations, force vaccinations, push flu vaccines, and create more inhales drugs for asthma. I have has severe asthma all my life and now I use un inhaler maybe once a year if I get bronchitis. Asthma is curable. You need to do research on this site, but you will find everything you need to get better immediately and stay that way.
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